ORANGE BLOSSOMS FRESH AND FADED.
BYT. S. ARTHUR.
"Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." —SOLOMON'S SONG.PHILADELPHIA J. M. STODDART & CO. BOSTON: GEO. MACLEAN; NEW YORK: WILLIAM GIBSON, JR.; CINCINNATI: QUEEN CITY PUBLISHING CO.; CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS; J. A. STODDARD & CO.; SAN FRANCISCO: F. DEWING & CO.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by J. M. STODDART & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Westcott & Thomson, Stereotypers, Philada. CAXTON PRESS OF SHERMAN & CO., PHILADELPHIA.
INTRODUCTION.
AH, if they would never fade—these sweet and fragrant blossoms! If the little foxes would never spoil the vines! They do not always fade, nor are the tender grapes always spoiled. There are many brows on which the orange blossoms are as fresh to-day as when placed there by loving hands in years long past. They will always be fresh and fragrant. Time has no power over them.
But they fade—alas! how quickly!—on so many brows. To keep them fresh—to bring back their sweetness when faded—is the loving mission of our book. It is a book of life-pictures. It takes you into other homes, and page: 4-5 (Table of Contents) [View Page 4-5 (Table of Contents) ] makes you familiar with other experiences than your own. It shows you where others have erred, what pain and loss have followed, and how love, self-denial and reason have turned sorrow into joy and threatened disaster into permanent safety.
CONTENTS.
- I. LITTLE FOXES. 9
- II. STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS. 23
- III. LOVE NOT CONSTRAINED. 40
- IV. GROWING COLD. 57
- V. LITTLE THINGS. 61
- VI. IN DANGER. 80
- VII. TEN YEARS AFTER MARRIAGE. 92
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- VIII. A HINT TO HUSBANDS. 104
- IX. A YOUNG WIFE'S SORROW. 116
- X. LOOKING FOR WRINKLES. 132
- XI. A NERVOUS WIFE. 144
- XII. ONLY A HUSBAND. 160
- XIII. THE FIRST SHADOW. 171
- XIV. NOT APPRECIATED. 183
- XV. SMILES FOR HOME. 190
- XVI. THE FOILED TEMPTER. 200
- XVII. DRIFTING AWAY. 219
- XVIII. CAN YOU AFFORD IT? 239
- XIX. THE MEREST TRIFLE. 253
- XX. MARRYING A BEAUTY. 266
- XXI. JOHN ARMOR'S SCARE. 334
- XXII. NOBODY BUT JOHN. 345
- XXIII. LOVE, A GIVER. 358
- XXIV. FIVE YEARS AFTERWARD. 373
- XXV. WHAT WILL THE WORLD SAY? 380
- XXVI. WHEN IT WAS OVER. 405
